The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-18
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twelve cents is being offered for sos,
and twenty-five cents for prime '86s.
The jury in the case OF Barclay
Peak on the 18th returned a verdict
of guilty of murder in the first degree.
Judge Parker announced that sentence
would be pronounced on the 25th Inst.
Peter Betters, colored, was lynched
at jamestown, Ohio, on the evening CT
the 18th, tor having assaulted Martha
Thomas, colored, aged Is years.
Stephen Poole, celored, aged 80 years,
shot and MORALLY wounded his wife
and then committed suicide, in Brook
yn, on the 18th. In Scurry county,
Texas, on the llth, James Taylor, u
"sheep man." was attacked by four
Mexicans, three of whom had knives
and one a six-,hOoter. He captured
the revolver and killed all four of his
assailants. "Dago Joe,"a half-breed
Indian, accused of the murder of a
white boy, was taken from officers and
lynched near Duncan Station, MiSsis-
sippi, on the 18th
1t is reported from Benson, Ari-
iona, that Lieutenant Johnson's COM
mand surprised a murdeTous band of
Apaches in the RincOm Mountains at
noon on the 18th, capturing their bag
gage and horses. 1.-THE Indians scat
tered among the rocks, and evidently
VIII try to make their way back to
San Carlos 1t is believed that the
hOstiles are practically helpless in
their present condition. The troops
are still in sharp pursuit"
The strike on the ore docks of the
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
Railroad at Cleveland resulted in a riot
on the afternoon of the 14th. The
places of the strikers have been filed
by colOred men and others from Chi
cago. The new men have been work
ing under police protection, as the
strikers threatened : TO drive them out
of town." On the afternoon of tie
18th, George Vactor, a colored porter
at the Central Depot, took Superin-
tenGent O'Brien. of the railroad CON-
pany, his dinner to the docks. The
strikers, who had gathered in large
numbers, beat him in a terrible man
ner, and would have killed him had
they not been driven away by the
police. The railroad company seeing
that they would have TO act quickly to
prevent a bloody scene, loaded their
imported coloIed men into a train,
and, amidst a shower of bricks and
ore, started away to the suburbs. John
Joyce, one of the assailants of Vactor,
has been arreeted."
There was a great panic in the
wheat market at Chicago on the 14th,
the decline for June wheat being II
cents. The suspension of three 1rms-
Rosenfeld K Co, E. w. Bailey & Co.,
and Hamill s. Brne-was announced,
and g. J.. KershaW & Co., asked a de-
lay from their creditors, promising that
ample funds should be forthcoming.
The panic extended to other cities, but
no serious trouble was reported except
at Milwaukee. where three failures
were announced, viz: Frank Wilson,
Joseph Wilde Hill, FleitzheIm Il Co.,
the latter being the Milwaukee branch
of G. j. Kershaw Il Co, of Chicago.
Hooker. Crittenden & Co., closed out
all their trades. Their failure depends
on the ability OF the KershaW crowd to
meet all Their obligations.
BY a fall of top rock in the Del
aware and Hudson Company's Mill
| Creek Colliery, near Wilkesbarre, on
the morning of the 14th, Peter Gem
mer was killed. Simon Charmesky so
badly hurt that he died within an
hour, aud Michael Fisher and John
Bradosky severely injured, the former
perhaps fatally.
Wesley and Elmer Fisher,
brothers, were crossing a bridge near
Butler, Ohio, on the 18th, with a
traction engine. when the bridge gave
way and both men fell into the water
fifteen feet below, where they were
pinned by the engine. Wesley was
held under water and drowned. Ell
mer wa held fast by the feet, but his
head remained above water. 1t took
nearly two hours to release him and
get u his brothers body.
The Mound City Street Car Com
pany's stables and the stables of the
Lafayette Brewing Company, In st.
| LOUIS, were destroyed by tire on the
morning of the 14th, both fires happen
ing almost at the same time. The loss
Ou LLt UlCNtl5 obdbAO 10 g1utNONs Ou LILO
car stables $50, 900. The cd Watuppa
mill In Fall River, Massachusetts, used
as a %storehouse by the Pocasset Manu-
featuring Company, was burned on the
evening of the 18th. Loss, $50 900.
lSwindell Brothers floating saw mill at
| Apalachicola, florida, was burned on
he l4th with 1000 0J0 feet OF boards.
Loss, $4,000. Turnbuli'S white lead
factory in Newtown, Long Island, was
burned on the 18th. Loss, $4,000.
j. &. Chase was robbed by two men
in the woods near fremont, Massachu-
sets, on the 18th. They took $500
and a watch from him and left him tied
to a tree. Frank Fowler, charged
with having forged checks to the
amount of S37, 900 on Governor Bate,
of Tennessee. over "a year ago, was ar
rested on the 18Th, at Rich Valley. In
diana, where he was hired as a farm
laborer.
-Four persons. whose ages range
from II TO As years, have been drowned
near Kalamazoo, Michigan. since the
18th, while boating or fishing Mat
thew Rapp was killed 10y lightning
while opening his door neal st. Joseph,
Missouri, on the evening of the 18th.